Word Finder - hanging

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To be or remain suspended.

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The lights hung from the ceiling.

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To float, as if suspended.

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The smoke hung in the room.

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(of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.

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To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

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He hung his head in shame.

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To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges or the like.

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Hang those lights from the ceiling.

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To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.

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The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.

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To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.

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You will hang for this, my friend.

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(used in maledictions) To damn.

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To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.

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Are you busy, or can you hang with me?  I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.

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To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

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To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

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Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.

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To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

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Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.

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To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

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To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.

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One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

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To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard and mouse.

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The computer has hung again. Not even pressing ++ works.  When I push this button the program hangs.

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To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

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The program has a bug that can hang the system.

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To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

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If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

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To be vulnerable to capture.

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In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

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Of a pitcher, to throw a hittable off-speed pitch.

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Suspended.

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The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.

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(of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.

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(of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher hence relatively easy to hit.

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hanging breaking ball

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(of a person) ugly; very unattractive

It was always hanging on our wall.

No wonder he keeps hanging around.

Jared exclaimed, hanging his hands through the bars in his cell.

As in, there are the two of you being lovey-dovey and happy, and me hanging out by the bushes.

I considered hanging up but for some reason delayed.

In a moment Alex slid over the edge of the bluff, hanging on to a rope.

You guys talk about spending overnights, hanging from a hammock sling, half way up some cliff on the other side of the world!

Brutus came running out of nowhere, his tail curled in its alert position and his big tongue hanging out.

Not with this unsolved issue hanging over their head.

Thanks to the delay caused by this crossing of the wolf's path, the old dog with its felted hair hanging from its thigh was within five paces of it.

I added a thank-you before hanging up.

She was hanging from the stanchion and suffocating.

He put pressure on his injured leg with a grimace but gestured towards the unconscious soldier hanging between two others.

The lanterns hanging from the warehouse ceiling were all lit.

Hanging my head, I walked back to my room, and climbed in bed.

She thanked him again and wished him a safe return trip before hanging up.

As Dean began to search the cards, a teenaged boy entered with a girl no more than 16 or 17 hanging on his arm.

Fred came in just as Dean was hanging up.

Before Dean finished hanging up his coat, pouring a cup of over-brewed coffee and settling in his chair, Rita Angeltoni dropped a pile of telephone messages on his desk.

Fred was still hanging on to the trashcan when the bartender, two painters and Dean, still nursing his head and his elbow, reached him.

Dean felt ill at ease in Cynthia Byrne's bedroom, spying on her world, seeing the small rainbow of dresses hanging in her closet, sharing space with suits and shirts looking as if they were awaiting the return of Jeffrey Byrne.

Without the specter of Jeffrey Byrne hanging over him, Dean could have enjoyed the festivities even more.

She lifted her brows and lowered the receiver, hanging up again.

He left the sentence hanging, as if it were too horrible to put into words.

He left the sentence hanging.

In his hand were the two booties, with their tassels hanging.

Never again would he come running up to meet her, his big tongue hanging out as he gave her a huge doggie smile.

He stared at her, his mouth hanging open for a moment.

I have some hanging plants I've been trying to get rid of that would look great on your front porch.

The sun was bathing the cabin in orange by the time she had finished cleaning and hanging her clothes.

Megan stood and smiled a genuine welcome as Clara emerged from the car, carrying two large hanging plants.

Within seconds, the woman was hanging off of Xander's arm, throwing herself at him.

Toni was hanging off Xander while Laurencio snapped a flurry of pictures.

You definitely don't want him finding out you're hanging out with me, Jenn said.

You hanging in there?

Visitors are shown the "Church of the Annunciation" with caves (including a fragment of a pillar hanging from the ceiling, and said to be miraculously supported) which are described as the scene of the annunciation, the "workshop of Joseph," the "synagogue," and a stone table, said to have been used by Christ.

A small light sphere hanging from the end of 30 or 40 ft.

In this case the chain is not coiled, but simply passes over the lifting wheel, the free end hanging loose.

This arrangement is still employed, a hook being attached to the switch lever so that the mere hanging up of the telephone puts the bell in circuit.

At Saluzzo in Piedmont there is a stock with hanging ears, arched face and tall stature, kept for its dairy qualities; and in the Biellese the merino breed is maintained by some of the larger proprietors.

According to Sharp, all Dermestid larvae probably feed on dried animal matters; he mentions one species that can find sufficient food in the horsehair of furniture, and another that eats the dried insect-skins hanging in old cobwebs.

Even in summer cold and thick fogs are often seen hanging over the rivers, and clinging to the lower parts of the hills, and hoar-frosts are by no means unknown even in June and July.

Mill remarks that the uncertainty hanging over the very elements of moral and social philosophy proves that the means of arriving at the truth in those sciences are not yet properly understood.

The gnat larva, for example, breathes at the tail-end, hanging head-downwards from the surface-film.

The English setter should have a silky coat with the hair waved but not curly; the legs and toes should be hairy, and the tail should have a bushy fringe of hairs hanging down from the dorsal border.

Even the careless Charles was moved to issue an order to the colony which effectually stopped the hanging of the Quakers for their religion, though it by no means put an end to the persecution of the body in New England.

The greater part of the animal is covered with long brown hair, thick, matted and curly on the shoulders, so as to give the appearance of a hump, but elsewhere straight and hanging down - that of the sides, back and haunches reaching as far as the middle of the legs and entirely concealing the very short tail.

An Orthodox bishop, vested for the holy liturgy, wears over his cassock - (i) the rnxcipcov, or alb (q.v.); the E7nrpay,Acov, or stole (q.v.); (3) the a narrow stuff girdle clasped behind, which holds together the two vestments above named; (4) the E7 n, uaviexa, liturgical cuffs, corresponding, possibly, to the pontifical gloves of the West;' (5) the i 7rtyovarcov, a stiff lozengeshaped piece of stuff hanging at the right side by a piece of riband from the girdle or attached to the o-AKKos, the equivalent of the Western maniple (q.v.); (6) the like the Western dalmatic (q.v.), worn instead of the 4acv6Acov, or chasuble; (7) the c?µocp6pcov, the equivalent of the Western pallium (q.v.).

The washed product contains in its pores a notable proportion of water, which is removed by hanging the rubber for some days in a warm room.

There is but one cactus indigenous to Natal; it is found hanging from perpendicular rocks in the midlands.